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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict from the home front?

Wars are not only fought at the war's front. They are also fought at the home front. Here, the battles are for the hearts and support of those at home, as well as for the parents and children of those sent to battle.

Instructions:

Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

  1. Discuss what it was like to be at the home front during World War I, as if you were this participant(s).
  2. Go to your team’s worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visited [see below]
  3. Then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
  4. When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to be at the home front during this conflict?"
  5. Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team’s response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question.
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Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!
Be sure to use your BACK button to keep returning to this site!

[http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/homefront_wq.html]

Now turn this sheet over and begin your webquest

Visit these sites:

Set #1: as a citizen: citizen support was essential to the success of the war movement. Many forms of education & persuasion were used to support government decisions & to focus resources.

Food will win the war

Read the 1st paragraph, then scroll to the bottom; click on & read documents #4 - #9

Go to the Poster War site.
Read the introduction, then click on continue with exhibit. Follow the arrows that point to the right, at the bottom of each page.

NOTES:

 

Set #2: mixed views

A Question of Honor - the Selective Service

Letters to and from an Alabama Senator:

Read the first paragraph, then scroll to the bottom; click on documents #1, #11, #14, #16

The effects of war could send you home in may ways.

 

Women's contribution to the War effort

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Set #3: as a parent, child, sister or brother: Soldiers are always part of someone's family. These relationships are often what we remember the most from a conflict.

The letters of Francis James Mack , an Australian Soldier at the European front.

Slowly down the page. Read the letters dated:

• January 27, 1917 • April 8, 1917

• February 1, 1918 • May 27, 1918

• July 12, 1918 • July 18, 1918

• July 30, 1918

From the British home front, there is the Order of the White Feather

 

'Swavesey will Remember' memoir

 

An Unfortunate Region Epitaphs from the headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission scroll down to 'Epitaphs', then click on it.

NOTES:

 

When you have completed viewing and analyzing the three sets of information, on a separate sheet of paper, synthesize the information from your notes into one statement:

What is it like to be in a conflict from the home front?

Remember: this is not a report about... You are to respond in the voice of your participant.